"Mess" is a HUGE overstatement. People are blowing this way out of proportion. THGTTG says, "Don't Panic," and that's pretty good advice.
"It's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young" "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen."
"Five to one against and falling..." she said, "four to one against and falling...three to one...two...one...probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality." She turned her microphone off – then turned it back on, with a slight smile and continued: "Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem."
It also says the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything is 42, and a hitchhikers most valued possession is his towel, plus the pan-galactic gargleblaster is the most powerful drink in the known universe ... what's your point?
